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750ml
Bottle: $159.94
Made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Sleeping Lady Vineyard is deep garnet-purple in color....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $89.90
6 bottles: $88.10
Ripe and focused, with a core of raspberry, mulberry and black currant pate de fruit notes that meld nicely with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $97.45
6 bottles: $95.50
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White
750ml
Bottle: $36.48 $38.40
Beautiful lemon, tangerine, honey, green herbs, and white flower notes emerge from the 2018 Carricante Bianco...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $49.94 $54.00
The 2018 Carricante Centennial Mountain Vineyard is exotic, translucent and full of character. Lemon confit, orchard...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $218.95
3 bottles: $214.57
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon is dark and brooding, earthy and layered. Notes of petrichor, cedar box, dusty savory...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $104.57 $109.20
12 bottles: $103.74
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon is a charming, sweetly fruited effort with loads of character. First produced in 1985 and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $36.00 $40.00
The 2018 Atlas Peak AVA Cabernet Sauvignon is stunning, displaying a deep garnet color that immediately captures the...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $206.77
3 bottles: $202.63
Wonderful aromas of currants, plums, lavender, slate and violets follow through to a full body with tight, chewy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $132.84 $147.60
Wild blackberry, cassis, dark chocolate, tobacco and dark spice on the nose. Dried violets, too. It’s medium-to...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $78.85 $82.80
A perfumed, fresh nose filled with violets, lavender, black currants. The palate is plush, dense and precise,...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $49.94
6 bottles: $48.94
The 2018 Sauvignon Blanc Pine Mountain is made of 100% Sauvignon Blanc from a vineyard at 2,850 feet in elevation. It...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.87 $14.30
12 bottles: $11.40
Our winemakers selected fruit from choice vineyards to create a Cabernet that delivers rich notes of ripe berries and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $98.71 $109.20
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Magic Nights is laced with inky dark fruit, licorice, crème de cassis, chocolate, sweet...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $22.80
12 bottles: $18.24
The wine is dark ruby with aromas of black cherry, plum, and brown spice with hints of toasted oak. The fruit follows...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $82.95 $83.60
12 bottles: $81.29
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Vaso is cut from the same cloth, offering beautiful purity and richness. It’s slightly...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $127.54
Juicy in feel, with both a lush and brambly aspect to the mouthfeel, this red delivers a nice wave of steeped currant...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $43.84 $46.00
The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon is the wine to focus on in this range in 2018. Dark and brooding, the 2018 is such a...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $193.89
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $63.94
Shows a lovely mix of cold cast iron, charcoal and warm earth notes that run underneath layers of warmed cassis, plum...
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Cabernet Sauvignon Carricante Sauvignon Blanc 2018 United States California 750ml

The green skinned grapes of the Sauvignon Blanc varietal had their origins in Southern France, where they are still widely grown and used for many of the excellent young and aged white wines the region is famous for. Today, however, they are grown in almost every wine producing country in the world, and are widely revered for their fresh and grassy flavors, full of tropical notes and refreshing, zesty character. Sauvignon Blanc grapes thrive best in moderate climates, and ripen relatively early in the year. This has made them a favorite for many wineries in the New World, where they can still produce healthy and high yields in the earlier part of the summer before the temperatures become too hot. Too much heat has a massively adverse effect on Sauvignon Blanc, as the grapes become dull in their flavor, and the wine produced from them loses all its unique character and high points. As such, Sauvignon Blanc farmers have had a lot of trouble from global warming and climate change, as they are being forced to harvest their crops increasingly earlier in the year when it is cool enough to do so.

Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.

California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.